Comments on: Be a Blogger: Identify Your Target Audience

By: So You Want to Be a Blogger Series Roundup? | Frugal Dad

So You Want to Be a Blogger Series Roundup? | Frugal Dad — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:54:59 +0000

[...] Identify Your Target Audience. The advice here is geared towards writing for the web, but as I’ve learned from offline writing assignments since, identifying your target audience is a key element in any writing project. [...]

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Selecting a Blog Host | Frugal Dad — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:54:25 +0000

[...] caused by last week’s surge in traffic? Oh, that’s right. We had identified a topic, audience and registered our domain. Now it is time to select a hosting service to serve as the all important [...]

By: Be a Blogger: Set Your Post Frequency | Frugal Dad

Be a Blogger: Set Your Post Frequency | Frugal Dad — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 15:48:23 +0000

[...] that you have identified a topic to write about, and an audience to write to, it is time to determine how often you will post updates to your blog. Some of this advice is [...]

By: Writer's Coin

Writer's Coin — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 12:12:10 +0000

I like the advice to think bigger. Always think beyond the rules and tips you read or hear about and that should put you in a great position.

By: Jen

Jen — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 22:09:20 +0000

Great post–it’s the simple things like this that we often neglect to think about!

By: Linda P. Morton

Linda P. Morton — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:31:47 +0000

You’re right! The easiest way to work with a target market is to target a market like yourself. You already know how you react, and many of those reactions can be generalized to others like you.

The problem comes when your target market is not like you. This is often the case today when many Internet marketers select niches based on the number of searches for a keyword and the number of competing sites.

How do you know how target market member’s in these niches will react? How do you know the best appeals to reach them?

Market segmentation provides the way of using demographic information to determine psychographic, sociographic and behavioral characteristics that enable you to discover your target market’s values, concerns, needs, wants, information needs and media use.

By: Crotalus

Crotalus — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:26:41 +0000

From one dad to another, keep up the good work.

By: CiaranFromChance

CiaranFromChance — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:05:42 +0000

Nice FD, I think you are kind of unique for your target demographic. We now have Madison, as part of The Life Skills Network, to cover frugality from the female perspective.

I look forward to your combined efforts and think most people can get their fill from reading both blogs.

As Tom Petty says, ‘the future is wide open…’

By: Amy

Amy — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:12:35 +0000

I agree with this, and also can say that I really felt challenged to offer something unique when I blogged. There are so many blogs out there and many of the topics are so saturated. I found it really difficult to share in a different way about the same topics that everyone else was covering. I think that is where good content and a clean design seem to really help set you apart from the masses. Great post!